Biography

Tushar Krishna is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. His research spans computer architecture, interconnection networks, networks-on-chip, and AI/ML accelerator systems — with a focus on optimizing data movement in modern computing platforms.

He held the ON Semiconductor (Endowed) Junior Professorship in ECE from 2019–2021, and has been a visiting professor at MIT EECS + CSAIL and Harvard CS, and a researcher in Intel's VSSAD group. He earned his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT (2014), an M.S.E. from Princeton (2009), and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi (2007). His papers have been cited over 23,300 times, and he is a member of the Halls of Fame of all three premier computer architecture conferences — MICRO, HPCA, and ISCA. He was a recipient of the “Under 40 Innovators Award” at DAC in 2025, and won the 2026 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award.

His research is funded by NSF, DARPA, IARPA, SRC (JUMP 2.0), the Department of Energy, Intel, Google, Meta, Qualcomm and TSMC. He serves as Co-Director of the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) and co-chairs the Chakra Execution Traces & Benchmarks working group within MLCommons. He served as Program Vice-Chair for ISCA 2023 and Program Co-Chair for MICRO 2026.

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